please don"t increase the buy in! APATs aren"t about big buyins/prizepools. If anything I"d be in favour of dropping it to £50 to widen the potential pool of players, but £75 has worked in the past and can"t see the need to change it, particularly when times are tight for a lot of people.
+1. Plenty of big buy ins for those that want them in other tours.
Keep the APAT 75!
But £100 ers in other tours are not APATs and I want to play the APATs and its more economic to do so with a £100 buy in. Let me illustrate:
Assuming 200 Players...
Current prize for 1st (23%) £3500
Buy in £75
Life Rake (beer, Hotel etc) £150
Total Cost £225
Therefore 1 bink gives you 15.5 National Tournaments
£100 buy in
1st Prize £4600
Buy in £100
Life Rake £150
Total Cost £250
Therefore 1 bink give you 18.4 National Tournaments
So.. Its more economical to have a higher buy in
don"t know about anyone else, but I don"t budget that much for APAT events - I can"t. At the moment I only play if I satellite in, meaning I just have to find a bit of money for accommodation and expenses, which are done as frugally as possible. Let"s assume for the sake of illustration that I"m buying the seat though.
buy in - £75
Hotel (shared if possible, or even better, free from Andrew) - approx £30
Travel - £20 (cheap advance booked train)
Other expenses (food, drink) - £30
total - £155.
The difference between finding £155 and £180 might just be the tipping point for some people and £130 would definitely be preferable from a personal point of view - it"s not about equity, it"s about affordability and keeping the APATs as open to as many amateurs as possible. plus I never bink APATs so all money has to be treated as spent rather than invested